System has been out since Monday afternoon

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The air conditioning system has been out since Monday afternoon at Camp Hill. (CBC)

The air conditioning system is not working at the Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial Building in Halifax, CBC News has learned.

Patients and workers have been sweating their way through an air conditioning malfunction since Monday afternoon.

Capital District Health Authority said it hopes to have the problem fixed by Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday.

John Gillis, spokesman for Capital Health, said a part for the system is being flown in from Toronto. In the meantime, patients are being given extra water to drink and the windows in the hospital have been opened.